https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/feedThis is a feed of the latest articles from Rock Paper Shotgun.enCopyright (c) Rock Paper Shotgun a brand of IGN Entertainment, Inc.Sun, 10 May 2026 13:00:00 +0000https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-war-to-end-all-wars-is-a-colony-sim-now-with-an-acceptable-losses-gaugeEdwin Evans-ThirlwellTue, 28 Apr 2026 10:30:00 +0000https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-war-to-end-all-wars-is-a-colony-sim-now-with-an-acceptable-losses-gaugeManagementBird view / IsometricHistoricalSingle PlayerStrategy: BuilderDig InStrategy: Real-Time StrategyPC<img src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Dig-In.jpg?width=690&quality=85&format=jpg&auto=webp" /> <p> If <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/games/dig-in">Dig In</a> were called a 'historical wave defence <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-best-strategy-games-on-pc">strategy</a> base-builder' or similar I wouldn't have been jarred by it. Odds are I'd have skimmed right past. Instead, Icelandic developers Vitar Games are calling it "a WW1 trench warfare colony sim", and this wigs me out a little. We are colonising the Somme! Nothing is too sacred for artistic depiction, and people have been commodifying memories of the World Wars for decades, but throwing in a fraught concept like "colony" really turns it all up to 11/11.</p> <p>It's a gift to cultural essayists. Within the combinatory logics of Steam, it's also a harbinger for such genres as the "WW1 life sim" or even "cosy WW1". I am trying to imagine what Wilfred Owen might have written about bladder gauges. Here is a trailer. </p> <p><a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-war-to-end-all-wars-is-a-colony-sim-now-with-an-acceptable-losses-gauge">Read more</a></p>